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Sustainability is a lifestyle. It means putting the bottle in the recycling bin, or better -- using a reusable water bottle. It means storing food in glass containers instead of the throwaway plastics. But when it's time to have friends over -- and y...

It started with those blue recycle bins placed in primary school classrooms. Then there were documentaries on sea creatures strangled by plastic soda can connecters and of course, Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth that got the conversation going on cli...

Socially conscious shopping has never been a bigger trend. TOMS trailblazed the "buy one, give one" model, and Warby Parker similarly helps consumers feel good about their purchases. So now that you have glasses and shoes -- and helped someone in the...

Social responsibility is no longer just an option for businesses, brands are learning. From TOMS shoes which fund the giving of shoes for people in need, to Warby Parker, which provides glasses to people in need for every pair sold, buying where your...

Are you trying to be more green? Then why not start at home? We found eight excellent products that will save you energy -- and therefore money -- as soon as you install them around your abode. From clever, eco-friendly chargers to innovative ways to...

We all have unused and unwanted gadgets -- cellphones from the days of yore, laptops long since rendered obsolete -- and they usually end up just sitting at the bottom of a closet or in a seldom-opened drawer. In fact, the average mobile customer alr...

Technology seems to take us away from "active" activities like sports for recreation instead of video games or just walking around a physical store rather than shopping online. But, plenty of innovations help us live more healthily. In today's Hangou...

Technology always makes our lives better, unless it makes things worse. For those of us who sit behind a computer for eight hours each day (or more), we may eventually find ourselves at the chiropractor or on a massage table, unsure why our backs fee...

The way singers' voices get from their mouths to your ears becomes easier than ever because of the music-distribution services sprouting up online. Gone are the days when consumers were required to listen to the radio or purchase physical copies of s...

The idea of using a sensor to track one of your bodily functions (say, your heart rate) used to be the domain of the medical industry or professional athletes. Today, it's something anyone can buy at the Apple Store. Walk by the accessories section i...

Welcome to our live Hangout with Keenan Cummings, the designer and cofounder of Days, a mobile app that incubated at TechStars. We'll be talking with Cummings about mobile app design, his workflow process and trends in the industry.

What does it mean to be a product designer? Keenan Cummings, cofounder and designer of Days, asks this question in a recent post on his design blog, Field Study. SEE ALSO: How Microsoft Could Rebrand Itself Sites like Dribbble are great at featuring ...

Startup culture became known for several things over the years: hoodies, ping pong, beer consumption and really awesome offices. Amazing offices became a perk of startup life, perhaps thanks to the litany of amenities at the Googleplex. SEE ALSO: Are...

Stop me if you've heard this one before: The living room is about to become totally connected. For the past decade or longer, users were promised a world where live TV, digital video from Netflix, Hulu and YouTube, and purchased or downloaded content...

There's a reason we flip through Skymall every time we board a flight, dog-earing catalogue pages with giant floating trampolines and vibrating bath mats -- we love novelty, and now we expect it from our gadgets, too. We carry around a ton of digital...

Spring cleaning season may have come and gone, but like when you give a mouse a cookie, your simple home reorganization can easily grow into full renovation, for a person with a big imagination. If you're thinking of painting the walls, moving the fu...

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